Ed Howker

Getting the balance right

Branko Milanovic is the lead economist at the World Bank’s research department, a professor at the University of Maryland and a grand fromage at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace too.

  • The Haves and the Have-Nots

    Branko Milanovic

    Basic/Perseus Books, pp. 272

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